14 Kakapo Facts - Fact Animal says the kakapo belongs to the Infraorder Cetacea
Zoological inaccuracies & mistakes
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Well…..it’s a MAMMAL
Simple conclusion really; Cetaceans can’t fly, Kakapos can’t fly, therefore…..
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I know that media which features anthropomorphic animals is low-hanging fruit with regards to inaccuracies, but bear with me. The movie The Rescuers Down Under (1990) is largely about a realistic Golden Eagle; a species that does not occur in Australia at all. Why could it not have been a Wedge-tailed Eagle? Baffling ignorance right there.
It seems (from a quick read) that the eagle in the movie is a made-up creature which they are calling the Great Golden Eagle - not the great Golden Eagle. The one in the movie is the last of her kind, her mate having been recently killed by a poacher. It also looks nothing like a Golden Eagle, having an entirely different colour scheme and being absolutely gigantic.
Yeah was an enormous eagle. Same sort size of the great eagle 'Gwaihir the Windlord' who rescues Gandalf and later Frodo & Sam in Lord of the Rings (and Bilbo, Gandalf and companions in The Hobbit); huge enough to carry several humans on its back). As a kid got the impression we had golden eagles in Australia (not the size Marahute is in RDU, but still big eagles) but books steered my belief to reality that our biggest eagle, wedgetails, were still an extremely impressive bird, and no eagles exist at least anymore that are that size. The goanna in the movie (the poacher's minion) is also green coloured and about the size of a large Asian water monitor, almost the size of a Komodo dragon lol. Also books showed that the goldene eagles in the world look more like our wedgetails than Marahute the eagle in that movie, who's appearance the animators seemed they went for like you said an actual golden blend with a bit of bald eagle white coloration on face too.
Marahute - Disney Wiki
about 15-20 x the size of largest real eagles (even about 5 x the wingspan or more surely lol, even the Haast's eagle nowhere near.).
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I recall a while ago on this thread I posted about some of the errors present in a National Geographic animal encylopaedia.
From what I have seen there has been a new edition published in 2021 [the book was originally published in 2012 I believe] which thankfully has fixed many of the errors present in the original print, particularly in regards to pictures. [There was some weird taxonomy going on too; the exact order or family names are not given in the book - but the book often makes clear which taxonomic rank it is talking about. Earlier editions of the book had a page dedicated to the now-discredited Edentata, with pangolins sharing the page with xenarthrans and, whilst not pictured, implying that aardvarks belonged to this taxonomic order too... which I imagine was an idea quite outdated even for 2012. The page now has a nine-banded armadillo instead of the pangolin there before...but now no pangolins are in the book!]
But there was one error which I found somewhat significant, and seems to have made its way into the latest edition...
The entry for the kangaroo rat is pictured by a rat-kangaroo... which to be fair if you type 'rat kangaroo' into Google for whatever reason you get kangaroo-rat as the top result. And arguably the error is made even worse in the newer editions which label the species by the name given... making this rat kangaroo apparently an Ord's Kangaroo Rat!
From what I have seen there has been a new edition published in 2021 [the book was originally published in 2012 I believe] which thankfully has fixed many of the errors present in the original print, particularly in regards to pictures. [There was some weird taxonomy going on too; the exact order or family names are not given in the book - but the book often makes clear which taxonomic rank it is talking about. Earlier editions of the book had a page dedicated to the now-discredited Edentata, with pangolins sharing the page with xenarthrans and, whilst not pictured, implying that aardvarks belonged to this taxonomic order too... which I imagine was an idea quite outdated even for 2012. The page now has a nine-banded armadillo instead of the pangolin there before...but now no pangolins are in the book!]
But there was one error which I found somewhat significant, and seems to have made its way into the latest edition...
The entry for the kangaroo rat is pictured by a rat-kangaroo... which to be fair if you type 'rat kangaroo' into Google for whatever reason you get kangaroo-rat as the top result. And arguably the error is made even worse in the newer editions which label the species by the name given... making this rat kangaroo apparently an Ord's Kangaroo Rat!
